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Nitrogen fixation
The reduction of molecular nitrogen to ammonia and nitrogen-containing metabolites that is carried out synthetically, or naturally by blue-green algae or bacteria, e.g. Rhizobium species that inhabit nodules on the roots of legumes.
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